Take cover: there's a storm coming. With its lyrical thunderbolts, lightning-flash fretwork and ground-shaking grooves, 'Black Wind Howlin' ' is a record to blow your roof off and Samantha Fish has stood at the eye of the hurricane. "It has a rebellious streak," says the bandleader of her game-changing new album, "and a prevalent theme is, 'I'm not gonna take your sh*t anymore
'" Released in September 2013 through Ruf Records, Black Wind Howlin' flips a finger at the cliché of the 'difficult second album', firing off 12 classic tracks that chart Samantha's evolution as songwriter, gunslinger and lyricist. "Since completing Runaway back in 2011," she reflects of her solo debut, "I've been on tour pretty much non-stop. I've spent a lot of time writing, playing and listening to music. I feel like the themes and sound of my music have matured. To me, it's about the human experience from my perspective, as well as people I've come into contact with over the last few years." While lesser artists work to a template or settle into a pigeonhole, Samantha shifts her shape across the Black Wind Howlin' tracklisting.